9th Annual LA 3-D Movie Festival Announces Winners

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The Los Angeles 3-D Club (SCSC) is pleased to announce the winners of The 9th Annual LA 3-D Movie Festival, whose mission is to showcase the best independent stereoscopic 3-D filmmaking from around the world. The festival took place on Dec 14th-16th, 2012, at the Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles.

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Awards were presented at the Closing Night Awards Ceremony on Saturday, Dec 15th. Top films were selected by audience ballot. In addition, a special Director’s Choice prize was also awarded. Award winners were presented with the traditional "Ro-Man" trophy of the LA 3-D Club in an evening ceremony that culminated with the screening of the award winning films.

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The Grand Prize Award winner was The Heart’s Eye View a romantic fantasy about finding love in the real world. Producer/Cinematographer/Editor James M. LeGoy and Director/Producer/Writer Gerald Emerick accepted the Gold Ro-Man award, a Sony Vegas Pro 12 editing suite featuring stereoscopic workflow from Sony Creative Software, a new Fujifilm Finepix Real 3-D W3 digital camera from Fujifilm, and a Stereoscopic Alignment Chart from Goat and Yeti.

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Second Place Award went to the music video All Is Not Lost, directed collaboratively by the rock band OK Go, the Pilobolus dance company, and Director/Choreographer Trish Sie, with stereography by 3-D Director Eric Kurland. Produced by Shirley Moyers. Depicting a gravity defying human kaleidoscope, this Grammy nominated music video picked up the Ro-Man silver award. The filmmakers also received a Sony Vegas Pro 12 editing suite from Sony Creative Software.

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Third Place Award was presented to Tarang, a 3-D video collage of a classical Indian Odissi dance created at Texas A&M University by students Shyam Kannapurakkaran, Jonny Greenwald, and Ganesh Rao. In addition to the Ro-Man bronze award, the filmmakers also received a Sony Vegas Pro 12 editing suite from Sony Creative Software.

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Scottish filmmaker Andrew Murchie was awarded a special Director’s Choice Award for his body of work, which included four films selected for the festival - ATM, a short romantic comedy about a girl, a boy, and a cupcake; Cycle 3D, about a motorcycle rider who suffers an accident; The Collection, a horror short about an obsessed college professor; and Hidden, a hard-hitting cop drama. Murchie received a Sony Vegas Pro 12 editing suite from Sony Creative Software.

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The LA 3-D Club (Stereo Club of Southern California) was established in 1955 by dedicated stereo photographers and 3-D filmmakers who have continued their work today with the Annual LA 3-D Film Festival at the Downtown Independent Theater, Los Angeles' premiere venue for screening independent film and video.